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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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I've always been fascinated by the things people do in their spare time when they can do exactly what they want to do. Men and sheds are a particularly fertile field. Women tend to do their thing in the comfort of the house.
I was delighted to see Andy's picture of the clock movement he has made.
It struck me that we could perhaps start a new topic devoted to spare time skill. So Andy starts it off and my contribution is this:
It's a small steam engine made from scratch and is based on the Stuart 5A but a longer stroke. One of these will drive a 14 foot boat with steam at 250psi. By the way, we don't like to call them models, it's exactly the same construction and materials as a full size engine, just smaller. So come on out there, let's hear about what you make in your spare time. I reckon we could be in for some surprises!
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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Cathy
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Posted - 27/07/2006 : 10:33
Hi Everyone...Re: Marilyn's present - W e l l, I've been thinking of Scented Drawer Liners.......I don't know why??, or maybe a Gift Voucher. What do you buy a contented woman who has everything?? Any idea's will be welcome. 
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
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Another
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Posted - 27/07/2006 : 11:48
Cazza, do her drawers need to be scented? Nolic
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Stanley
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Posted - 27/07/2006 : 12:45
I pour cutting oil in mine.......
Stanley Challenger Graham
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stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk |
belle
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Posted - 27/07/2006 : 20:17
I showed Deadly the picture of your shed, Stanley, and he wants to know what the orange thing is almost centre picture..i think it's a fire bucket, he thinks it's an electric french samap grain mill! (don't ask!)
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Ringo
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Posted - 27/07/2006 : 20:22
I think its a bucket that is used for keeping 'odds and sods' in.
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catgate
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Posted - 27/07/2006 : 20:50
I think, from looking at what is above it, that it is a bucket of water to dip his tool in as he is sharpening it.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
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Ringo
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Posted - 27/07/2006 : 21:39
I am 100% sure its an orange plastic bucket and it looks to have rags of some sort or another in it.
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marilyn
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Posted - 28/07/2006 : 01:44
I...errr...ummm....don't know what to say about scented drawer liners. I have seen things of that nature advertised on the TV.....and in little boxes on supermarket shelves too come to think of it. I...errrr.....am truly.....(sniff....sniff)...not AWARE that I do need such things.....
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
Stanley
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Posted - 28/07/2006 : 07:40
It was a bucket full of nuts and washers waiting to be sorted out. That's done and it no longer sits there like a permanent reproach. Good thing about small spaces crammed with tackle is that you are forced to be tidy. Latest job to come in is BK's fire shovel from his fireside companion. I didn't realise that they were still popular. The connection between the handle and the showel itself was a piece of monkey metal and it's broken off. I shall hand forge a proper tang for it..........
Before you ask..... the blue streak on the outside welding bench is where I shape the broken pieces of blackboard chalk that sit in the bottom of the bowl of my pipe to save tobacco and make it a better smoke......
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 28/07/2006 : 10:41
Blue chalk...better smoke.....man, is that legal?
I do hate to harp on about my drawer liners. It seems so tactless and I have to admit that I haven't bothered with my drawers in ages. After the comments made, I made a full inspection of ALL my drawers today. I was quite astounded to discover that some of the custom made ones actually contained the liners of the former owner! They seemed in good order however, and I may get another 12 months out of them! I am quite happy about that. On inspection of some drawers it seems I may benefit from some cockroach baits Cathy.....how does this fit with you? Perhaps some mothballs would be better still....I can hide quite a few in the bedroom drawers anyway.........and it IS my birthday after all...
IT WAS NOLIC!!!!! made me say these things!
Edited by - marilyn on 28 July 2006 10:44:55
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
Stanley
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Posted - 28/07/2006 : 11:05
Yup, they can't touch you for it.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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marilyn
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Posted - 28/07/2006 : 11:31
 Nup...I am clean! (thought about ever word carefully)
or were you referring to the blue chalk thing Stanley?
conundrums...conundrums...
Edited by - marilyn on 28 July 2006 11:33:15
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
belle
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Posted - 28/07/2006 : 11:48
Cathy, nobody needs drawer liners...we can all cut up old wall paper if the urge takes us!
Oh Stanley, kingfisher blue burning to a cinder at the bottom of your pipe...at least draw a little pic with it first...and what are the health implications of lungfuls of chalk dust? Can't be good, I do hope you're sensible.....and look into it...at least confine yourself to white chalk then you wont have heated pigment going into your lungs....Bet it makes for an interesting answer when the doc asks what colour is the stuff you cough up?
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Posted - 28/07/2006 : 12:02
Perfectly acceptable to use chalk in the bottom of your bowl to give a clean, dry smoke. Proprietory chalk filters used to be extortionately priced and didn't always fit the large Peterson that I used to smoke. Nolic
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Stanley
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Posted - 28/07/2006 : 18:01
Quite Comrade. 50p for ten, ridiculous. I soon worked out that ordinary chalk was just as good, it just so happens that the last lot were coloured. For your information Belle (and I realise this might be slightly too much information) I don't cough. Pipes aren't like cigarettes, far healthier. It's the additives in fags and cheap cigars that get you. Also I alwys smoke Falcon pipes which condense most of the muck out of the smoke before it gets in your lungs. Very satisfying seeing the tar and crap in the condensing chamber.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk |
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